Raga Ahmad said she filled out a form on the Government’s website with her contact details, but had still not heard from any official “They did not say a specific time. They said we are going to contact you, but until right now no one contacted us”
The family were taken in by friends who live in a part of the city less affected by the fighting, but Ms Ahmad said she still did not feel safe. “They say it is a safe area but I don’t think it’s a safe area because we hear the shooting every day,” she said.shooting has still been heard in the capitalThe British Government has been under pressure to rescue British citizens in the country since diplomats were evacuated on Sunday. There are thought to be roughly 4,000 British citizens in Sudan.
Evacuees from Sudan board a bus after disembarking from an RAF military transport at Larnaca airport from Sudan on military planes leaving from an airfield near Khartoum and has said it will contact those eligible to tell them when to make their way to the airport. By lunchtime today, 301 people had been rescued on four separate British flights.
Ms Ahmad said she filled out a form on the Government’s website with her contact details, but had still not heard from any official. “They did not say a specific time. They said we are going to contact you, but until right now no one contacted us,” she said.“I’m going to try and get them to take me and if not I’m going to stay with them, because at least I am safe. They can protect me,” she said.between the army and a rival paramilitary faction, Rapid Support Forces.
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